Present-day country
Peru
10 nations list Peru among their present-day countries.
Present-day countries are listed by ISO 3166 names. Many nations live across more than one.
10 nations
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Achuar
Also known as Achual
Lands Northern Loreto in Peru near the Ecuador border, and the neighboring Amazon of Ecuador
Peru's Ministry of Culture has registered five interpreters and translators of the Achuar language.
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Asháninka
Lands Central Peruvian Amazon in Junín, Ucayali, Pasco, Cusco, Huánuco and Ayacucho
In Peru's 2017 national census, 55,493 people identified as part of the Asháninka people.
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Awajún
Also known as Aguaruna
Lands Northern Peruvian Amazon in Amazonas, Loreto, San Martín, Cajamarca and Ucayali
In Peru's 2017 national census, 37,693 people identified as part of the Awajún people.
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Aymara
Also known as Aimara
Lands The altiplano around Lake Titicaca and nearby valleys and cities of Bolivia and Peru, and the far north of Chile
In Bolivia's 2024 census, more than one million people self-identified as Aymara, and more than one million as Quechua.
Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Bolivia (opens in a new tab) Checked
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Huni Kuin
Lands Rivers of Acre state in western Brazil, such as the Tarauacá, Jordão and Purus, and the Purus and Curanja rivers in Peru
MAHKU, the Huni Kuin Artists Movement founded in Acre in 2013, painted a large mural across the facade of the Central Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale.
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Quechua
Also known as Quechuas
Lands Andean highlands and valleys of Peru and Bolivia, with Quechua communities also in Argentina and Chile
Peru's Ministry of Culture reports that 5,179,774 people nationwide feel or consider themselves part of the Quechua peoples.
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Sápara
Also known as Zápara
Lands Rainforest of Pastaza province in the Ecuadorian Amazon, straddling the border with Peru
UNESCO inscribed the oral heritage and cultural expressions of the Sápara people of Ecuador and Peru on its Representative List in 2008.
Source: UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (opens in a new tab) Checked
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Shipibo-Konibo
Also known as Shipibo
Lands Ucayali, Madre de Dios, Loreto and Huánuco in Peru, with an urban community at Cantagallo in Lima
Cantagallo, home to Shipibo-Konibo families, is the best known Amazonian Indigenous settlement in metropolitan Lima.
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Tikuna
Also known as Magüta
Lands Along the upper Solimões (Amazon) river in Amazonas, Brazil, and in neighboring Peru and Colombia
The General Organization of Bilingual Tikuna Teachers (OGPTB), created in December 1986, develops bilingual Tikuna and Portuguese education and teacher training.
Source: Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) (opens in a new tab) Checked
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Uro
Also known as Uru
Lands Lake Titicaca, especially the Bay of Puno in Peru, with Uru communities also in Bolivia
In Peru's 2017 census, 681 people self-identified as part of the Uro people.